Women he had painted, who rose up and reproached him because his idea of them and their idea were different; women he had fallen in love with, or tried to persuade himself he had fallen in love with, or tried to hope he would presently be able to persuade himself he had fallen in love with; women who had fallen in love with him, and fluffed and flapped about him, monsters of soft enveloping suffocation; women he had wronged-absurd word!
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She fluffed down off the train like a bunch of lilac bloom one July day.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
Her shining, straw-coloured hair was fluffed out with a sort of ostentatious innocence on either side of a broad parting, and she kept her round chin tucked well in as she made what was certainly an effective entrance.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens